Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , this fact is more firmly registered in the layman 's mind than any other , and if he or she were asked to give a name to some species , it would probably be either Tyrannosaurus Rex ( wrongly believed to be the known largest ) , Brontosaurus or Diplodocus , the three most often mentioned . |
| 2 | She had plunked her pack with the lighter on top of the bar , as if she were planning to smoke the lot before she moved on . |
| 3 | Her hands , already shaking , had become even less steady , causing the egg she was breaking to miss the hotplate and fall on to the red embers below . |
| 4 | She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top . |
| 5 | She was struggling to cut the meat into what the book described as bite-size chunks when Edward appeared at the kitchen door . |
| 6 | The Grand Prix title could bring her earnings in just one week to an unprecedented £120,000 nice work for a girl who last year was considering taking up a full-time job because she was struggling to make a living on the Grand Prix circuit . |
| 7 | Veronica put down the knife she was using to butter a muffin , and looked at her . |
| 8 | As she wrung out a cloth which she was using to mop the floor Diana joked : ‘ Beryl , I doubt it . |
| 9 | Indeed , I was far more worried than she because the Seayak she was using had no storage tanks ( these are Prijon 's replacement for the more usual bulkhead system , the latter being very hard to make watertight in plastic boats ) and no pump . |
| 10 | She was built to keep the docks at Gloucester and Sharpness free from silt but could also work in the River Severn outside Sharpness Lock and on the west bank of the river at Lydney docks . |
| 11 | He leant right across the table now , to push Annie 's spoon back to her , and Carolyn put down the apple she was peeling to stroke the hollow in the back of his neck . |
| 12 | Her mission , she explained , was of the greatest delicacy and while she was loathe to broach the matter with the matriarch of the De Belvings , it was too serious to be discussed with anyone but the most trusted member of the household staff . |
| 13 | For some reason she was determined to drive the fact home , and Jenna felt rising anger to add to her other feelings . |
| 14 | She was determined to reach the body before anybody else . |
| 15 | She resisted all temptations to give in to homesickness : she had been given the choice between staying at home and starting a new life , and having chosen the latter she was determined to enjoy every waking minute to the full . |
| 16 | She was determined to defend the discount to that mother , although that did not seem to fit the rest of her contributions in Committee . |
| 17 | Sara knew that she had not been intended to understand this remark , and was hurt by it ; but she was determined to show no embarrassment or anger and told herself that Dom João was probably as nervous as herself . |
| 18 | Inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale in the Crimea , she was determined to become a nurse , and eventually , in 1860 , she overcame her mother 's opposition and embarked on eight months ' training at Kaiserswerth . |
| 19 | When BA and BCal merged in 1987 , she was determined to become a Concorde pilot and despite stiff opposition finally achieved her goal yesterday . |
| 20 | She was determined to make a go of this new house , in which she felt so much more cheerful , and understood fully how much depended on Mr Landor 's tractability . |
| 21 | But go to England she would for she was determined to make the directors of Croydon and Cooper see sense . |
| 22 | Even so , she was determined to have a go . |
| 23 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 24 | She was determined to get an answer . |
| 25 | She was learning to recognize the effect she had on men , and to her surprise she saw the hint of desire creep into his gaze . |
| 26 | ‘ She was helping to entertain the princes ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'm sure she wrote everything from the ‘ What 's On in Stoke Newington ’ column to the reports of the Council 's planning committee meetings with equal sincerity , convinced she was helping to change the world . |
| 28 | If the prophecy worried her , she was managing to conceal the fact . |
| 29 | So she was asked to undertake an elimination diet , which cleared these symptoms within a week . |
| 30 | At her entrance exam she was asked to recite a poem to the interviewers . |